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Letters: Which is more important: Children or Second Amendment?

Re “One lesson from Tehama shooting: School lockdowns save lives” (Editorials, Nov. 16): One more lesson from Tehama shooting: We live in the only developed country on earth where school lock-downs are regularly needed. If our schoolchildren mean more to us than the Second Amendment, what are we willing to do about it?

Francisco Prieto, Sacramento

This story was originally published November 16, 2017 at 10:15 AM with the headline "Letters: Which is more important: Children or Second Amendment?."

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